"Virutally unintelligible to non-Australians" ~~ Harry Hutton

CROAKEY!

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ha - I just been told by 774 talk back radio they can't put me to air because I told producers I felt sorry for his wife and kids and their loss brings home the issue that he was a dickhead who was lucky he lasted so long given his public disregard for safety or commonsense.

And my advice to the mother who rang in and said "What can I tell my 8 year old son tonight " was tell him "Don't play with dangerous animals against all advice"

Very apt that you raise the subject of gambling in the same entry as that of Mr Crikey, Tony. Any gambler knows that in the long run you can't beat the odds. Doesn't matter if it's a roulette wheel or a grumpy fish with a vicious spear for a tail.

So what were the bookies offering on Steve Irwin not living past the end of the year? That would have been worth having a flutter on. Still, it's hard to believe that he was outlived by both Evel Knievel and Shane MacGowan.

Yobbo- Yeah so there has been only one recorded attack on a human in Austrailia, but if your gonna fuck around with crocs,snakes and shit like that your numbers gonna be up eventually.
Now there have been a few attacks by Wombats on Humans but as far as I am aware no deaths, doing the basic maths you have more chance of being killed by a Stingray than a Wombat.
Have you been visiting www.funjunkie.co.uk/wombats_are_the_ultimate_power_in_the_universe.htm
Sorry for the pun ladies and gents but it was Wom Battle Mr Irwin did not win.

I do feel sorry for his family, and it does appear hugely unlucky that he got it via stingray (only the second recorded fatality in Oz history ?), I always thought that one day a croc was going to be just half a yard quicker than he was.

When we come to Perth this year and I won't swim on the ocean at least our Oz relatives won't be able to mock me.

I am amused by the hypocrite eulogising from the very media persons who attacked him so viciously* for taking his baby son Bob into the croc pen last year.
(Baby Bob was named after Irwin's father who founded the zoo - and won't it be packed out all week for no sensible reason).
*Commercial Media is The Enemy.
More threatening than Global Warming.

i feel sorry for his wife, his family, his friends. the loss of someone close is a gaping hole in your life. no death is good.

but the ranty fantasies being vomited onto the media+net about "him" are REALLY giving me the irrits.
"he was passionate about conservation" etc.
jesus.
mourn the man, not his PR machine's script. just because they found themselves a real live cartoon doesn't mean that the fantasy image they then built up was remotely related to what he did or was.

he was passionate about people thinking he was a legend, didn’t have a clue about wildlife, and didn’t give a fuck about the animals that he used as stooges in his manic dance for attention.

Poor old Johnny Ray
Sounded sad upon the radio
He moved a million hearts in mono
Our mothers cried and sang along and who'd blame them?
Now you're grown, so grown, now I must say more than ever
Go toora loora toora loo rye aye
And we can sing just like our fathers ....

Come on Eileen! Well, I swear (what he means)
At this moment, you mean everything
With you in that dress, my thoughts I confess
Verge on dirty ......
Ah, come on Eileen!

Fuck off Hack, you worthless piece of horseshit. It's cottonwool wrapped, purse lipped, chocolate doughnut punching, unco, manbag carrying, inner-city fucktards like you that are the source of any embarrassment about Australia.

murph, you seem to be confusing people who were too status-needy/seeking to say anything bad when he was alive, with those who are disgusted with the sudden explosion of media smarm and instant sainthood. i loathed him for his attention-seeking hypocrisy --and said so-- when he was alive and don't see any need to change my tune now he's dead. other than to respect the pain of his family.

nice mutual abuse in your & TheHack's last paras tho. made me proud to be strine. brought a tear to my jaded eye. it touched me. in a good way, not in a pervy way.